5th Grade Writing Process Resources : Page 6

Year-round school: yay or nay? Use your persuasive writing skills to make a case.

Uh oh, I spy a typo! This activity will serve as a resource to help your writers understand some basic strategies and copyediting symbols for polishing their writing.

This Father's Day, encourage your child to get to know dad a little better by writing a brief biography.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Students will read a complex sentence and then break it down into bite-size chunks in order to practice rewording vocabulary in this reading fluency worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

Voice is the energy, intention, and tone of a piece. Students will practice identifying voice in writing, then examine an excerpt from an award-winning text that book with a strong example of voice.

Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on family and be thankful for things in our lives. In the worksheet A Poem with Details from Your Thanksgiving, learners will write an abecedarian poem with details from their Thanksgiving break where the first letter

This prewriting activity helps students focus on developing a character and scene for a story.

This worksheet is designed to provide additional support for students who need extra practice with the basic revising and editing skills.

Use this graphic organizer to explore a beloved summer pastime in writing.

Encourage students to share their writing with classmates and receive feedback to improve their writing with this peer publishing worksheet.

Practice storytelling and illustration skills with this two-part adventure!

When authors create characters, they think about “inside” and “outside” details. Your students will go through the same process with this writing worksheet. Ask them to create a character and list the things they imagine this character thinks about and fe

Convince reluctant writers to pick up their pens with this fun write-it-yourself superhero comic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Help your students' confidence in writing persuasive essays grow with this tree graphic organizer. Using this worksheet, students will make connections between opinion, reasons, and examples in their persuasive writing.

Students will put their persuasive skills to work with this worksheet. They will plan and write a draft of a persuasive paragraph on whether or not to buy an electronic device of their choosing.

In this exercise, we'll practice expanding upon general concepts.

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

This checklist creates a healthy habit of evaluating any typed writing. Students will check for font, spacing, indentation, illustrations, grammar, and areas of improvement.

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!